Accountable Care Communities

Accountable Communities for Health: Moving From Providing Accountable Care to Creating Health.

Lessons from community-oriented primary care in the United States can offer insights into how we could improve population health by integrating the public health, social service, and health care sectors to form accountable communities for health (ACHs). Unlike traditional accountable care organizations (ACOs) that address population health from a health care perspective, ACHs address health fro...

Accountable care organizations.

Accountable care organizations.

Cardiology and accountable care.

Managed Care and Accountable Care Organizations

Managed care generally, and more specifically, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have attempted to provide coordination of patient care in order to eliminate or reduce unnecessary procedures and or test redundancy. The purpose of this research was to study the effects of managed care in accountable care organizations by decreasing health care costs by increasing efficiency in health care.